For SMEs, access to finance is a significant challenge. They need affordable lending solutions, improved credit risk scoring, and less friction. But banks often fall short of these objectives. While each of these approaches has merit, if they fail to commit to one main approach, the result is a hybrid. Banks should focus on the unique challenges faced by SMEs to meet their funding needs. Listed below are four ways to improve bank offerings for SMEs. SMEs struggle to access finance. SMEs across India face significant challenges when it comes…
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BALANCING QUALITY AND GROWTH
All businesses have the common goal to achieve growth while maintaining the massive quality customers to get supported the excel in the business community. Small business owners make constant initiatives to reach the highest level of business growth to become the next tycoon in the business community. But for Balancing Quality and Growth, the journey needs the face-off with the hurdles and zeal to cross it with a set strategic approach to retain and gain the old and additions to list of quality customers. The customer crowd has been categorized…
JOURNEY TO SME BANKING TRANSFORMATION
SMEs (Small and medium-sized enterprises) are the strongest hit by the changing environment especially when the crisis arrives. During COVID-19 the case became more worst and then the need for SME Banking Transformation evolved to support SMEs’ success. Towards the beneficial aspects of SME transformation, banks need to have a thorough knowledge of their challenges. Where to start for SME banking transformation? There should be a deeply focused approach on the areas of concern to find the solution for the problems faced by SMEs and the banking support required. Let’s…
RISK MANAGEMENT
One of the first things you should consider when beginning the planning phase of a project is what could go wrong. Although it sounds terrible, pragmatist project managers know that this kind of thinking is preventative. To know how to manage risks when project planning, you need to have a mitigation strategy. But how do you approach figuring out the unknowable? Don’t panic; there are actionable steps you can do despite the paradoxical-sounding nature of the situation. To help you discover and monitor risks on your project, we’ll talk about…
BRIDGING THE MIDDLE: SME BANKING TODAY
SMEs are companies with financial needs that are too large for microfinance but too small for corporate banking models to properly serve. They are a substantial and economically significant sector in almost every country on the planet. SMEs account for over 50% of national output in high-income and several middle-income nations. The SME banking industry is in upheaval. It has evolved from a market thought too difficult to serve to a strategic objective for banks worldwide. The “missing middle,” which refers to the gap in financial services available to SMEs,…
WHY SME LOANS GET DENIED
Small and medium-scale enterprises are intensely involved with the economy of the nation. Some of the time, they also play a pivotal role in pushing up the economic growth of a country. But in most cases, SMEs face many financial obstacles, such as arranging capital to start or running the business smoothly. We can all agree that financial flow is always necessary for running or growing a business. To supplement their economic scarcity, SMEs typically apply for loans, but they are met with heartbreaking denials. In some cases, SMEs are…
BILL DISCOUNTING – HOW CAN SMEs BENEFIT
Bill discounting or invoice discounting is the chance to borrow the sanctioned amount of short-term based funds from a lender on the outstanding invoices that the borrower holds. Small or medium-sized businesses require such funds to continue meeting their daily needs. Let’s take an example from our daily schedule of excessive outstanding in some cases. There may be situations when the bigger businesses also need to shut down even after increased debt via loans. But small businesses can’t even exist in such cases as they already have very limited funding…
THINGS THAT SMALL BUSINESSES CAN ADOPT FROM LARGE CORPORATES
Small business owners often dismiss certain best practices, processes, technologies etc. as not being relevant in a smaller ecosystem. They may have created a handicap for themselves with this thought process. Over my years coaching SME business owners and Startup founders, I have identified a few things that small businesses can adopt from large corporates. They may require a little bit of adaptation, but they contribute to the overall success and growth of the business. I am sharing a list below and would invite the readers to add to the…
EMBEDDED FINANCE FOR SMEs WITH BANKS AND DIGITAL PLATFORMS
The technology-driven era of modern society has captured the vast area with ease for a diverse set of activities including financial transactions. Embedded finance for SMEs in the same context is the revolution for SMEs from tiring sessions of banks. Embedded finance provides financial services to SMEs at the right period by reducing friction and opening the new possibility for new clients to get engaged with. As per the survey, there can be two major models that can support digital platforms that have shifted into embedded banking for SMEs. Pass…
STRENGTHENING INSTITUTION INDUSTRY INTERACTIONS THROUGH ACADEMIC INNOVATIONS AND INCUBATORS
The relationship between academia and industry is a well-known concept. However, improvement is necessary to move from the traditional exchange of funding for research to the creation of long-term strategic partnerships incubators and innovation activities in the academic organization. The purpose of this study is to explore and design an innovative and sustainable framework to improve the industry-academia link by leveraging academic innovations and incubators and to highlight the challenges faced. This work enhances the existing body of literature and knowledge regarding collaboration and offers concrete steps to be taken…